Impact of mortality, possibly due to herpesvirus, on pilchard Sardinops sagax stocks along the south coast of Western Australia in 1998 - 99

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 601-612

  Gaughan, D J ^a   Mitchell, R W ^a   Blight, S J ^a  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES AND MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORTALITY; VIRAL DISEASE;

AUSTRALIA;

SARDINOPS SAGAX;

EID: 0033914167     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF99176     Document Type: Article

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